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Feels a bit like a translation as some sentences don't link but isn't too distracting. Great insight into the phoney wall in Hungary leading up to full blown hostilities. Hungary seemed to have a remarkable talent for picking the eventual loser in any war

Should be subtitled: trivial pursuits! The amount of minute detail is gruesome including Andrews essential ironing board. But the money spent on business/ leisure trips is sickening. Why didn’t someone stop this brat from raiding the national purse so casually

Despite the claims to the contrary, this is, so far, a hatchet job and even though the subjects deserve this, I was looking for something a bit more balanced. Let’s see how it goes

Can’t take anymore of this public school stuff- shame I bought it for my son who couldn’t get on with it either. Final message to author- Stephen: it never happened!

The nonsense continues…that Eros though? What a scamp!

The balmyness and Fry’s gullibility continues ( I think he believes it was all true)

So let me see: Kronos eats all or most of the children that his sister has bore him….only for them to be coughed up later. this is the nonsense that public schools teach and our leaders like Johnson think important i.e : a classical education. No wonder our country is struggling to compete…

Fantastic story telling by Moorhouse, an author one feels has visited all the places mentioned along the Nile

Not sure I like Fry’s style and may not finish it

Seems to be a lot about napoleon which is fine but only a tenuous link with the Nile and not obviously the blue Nile

Read it 20 years ago but have absolutely no recall of ever having done so

I’m racing along getting the backdrop on the two central characters- yes you guessed it: the diffident Englishman and the over confident American!

Should be called: “Farewell to literature” as it’s poorly written, repetitive and banal in places but nonetheless an interesting insight into a little known theatre of the First World War that is the Austrian/Italian alps